TELEGRAMS, NOTES, DIRECTIVES

2361В
PHONOGRAM OF THE PRÓNSK CHEKA.
Prónsk
Ryazan.
To the Prónsk District Extraordinary Commission.
Oct. 28, 1918.
The Commission has arrested Ivan Grigóryevich Balashóv, an employee of the People's Commissariat of Enlightenment. Telegraph the reasons for the arrest and your conclusion. [1046]
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin.

PHONOGRAMS OF THE ALL-RUSSIAN CHEKA.
NOVEMBER 2-11, 1918.

1202В
Phonogram to Dzerzhínsky or Peters.
[November 2, 1918]
Are there serious charges against the arrested Professor Zérnov?1
Gorbunóv and Krasin request his release.
Lenin.

1 D. N. Zérnov — anatomist, was professor of the Moscow State University.

3436
[November 11, 1918]
This morning I requested information concerning why Kiríll Semyónovich Gínzburg has not been released, despite the fact that two members of the Russian Communist Party of Bolsheviks — Dáuge2 and Zhukovítsky3 — are standing surety for him, as well as information concerning which members of the All-Russian Cheka and when declared that they could not find Gínzburg, although he is being held in the Bútyrkí.
I demanded this information by the evening of November 11. Thus far, at 10½ o'clock, I have received no reply. I repeat once more my demand.
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin.